The way we access library books has drastically changed. You can access an enormous amount of borrowable content through an iPhone or iPad app — here's how. Public libraries have paired up with some ...

For National Library Week, explore the tools of a vintage library circulation desk. In 1918, they might not have had computers to circulate and track library books, but their paper-based systems were ...

Debates over school library books that have overtaken school board meetings across the country have thrust a generally (and sometimes literally) quiet corner of American public schools into the ...

For months, Carolyn Harrison and a small band of activists have been setting up folding tables with an array of what they call "bad books" outside the public library in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Harrison ...

NEW BEDFORD - A library book from New Bedford that was checked out nearly 120 years ago was found in West Virginia and returned. The rare books curator at West Virginia University recently found a ...

A book of poetry that survived the catastrophic 1906 earthquake and fire has been returned to the Mechanics’ Institute ...

Librarian Sharon McKellar of California's Oakland Public Library has been collecting personal objects she finds in returned books — an assortment of make-shift bookmarks ranging from paper scraps to ...